Hi Mike, I have no recommendation regarding the choice of in ISP across the Atlantic, what I can do is give you some hints on what kind of hosting proposition you might be looking at. I guess some other Profoxists having wConnect experience (any Michael?) may want to share their experience with hosting in North America.
FoxInCloud using West-Wind wConnect as an interface with the Web Server, hosting requirements are very similar, if not identical to a regular wConnect application. In brief, you'll probably want to run your production server in COM mode: wconnect's web server extension (e.g. wc.dll) instantiates your wConnect VFP server (DEFINE CLASS ... OLEPUBLIC) through COM and interact with it through the COM interface. This mode is recommended for a production server as: [1] it saves the file mode polling overhead (typically 50-100 ms per request), [2] wc.dll (re)starts your COM server automatically whenever a request is pending and no server available (e.g. after a windows reboot) [3] wc.dll can manage up to 32 concurrent COM instances and fine tunes load balancing between them, allowing some additional FoxInCloud optimizations. To do so, you'll need to register your COM object on the target machine (your.exe /regserver). Furthermore , you'll need to have some control on which account your server under (DCOMCNFG), and settings NTFS rights accordingly. All this requires you have some administrative priviledge over the server - to be more explicit, you should somehow own or lease a windows server license. You may recycle an old win 2k server license, it works just fine for hosting a FoxInCloud application, you won't need all the fancy features you get with Win 2k8 R2 64-bit -- *it works just fine* on these newer versions too. If you are to buy a windows license, a "web server" edition is fine - you'll get a 1-user terminal server license with which you can do your server settings via Remote Desktop. For the rest, choosing a server for FoxInCloud is very similar to choosing a server for Terminal Services, Citrix and/or any flavor of remote desktop service, for CPU requirements; you'll need FAR LESS memory and bandwidth: - *memory*: a typical FoxInCloud application instance requires less than 100 Mb - *bandwidth*: a typical FoxInCloud request requires less than 10 kb, a typical HTML page being 100 kb Regarding CPU, a rule of thumb is that a CPU can comfortably serve 10 concurrent users (intensive business users) If you plan to host more users on a single server (roughly 1 server = 1 database = 1 client company), you might prefer rent a "virtual" (alias "private") server running inside some kind of VMware; in this case you can easily ask your ISP for additional CPU HP when you see new users coming on board - and that will definitely happen, believe me, we have enough experience on that; once people have experienced the comfort of a web application, they just can't do without and others want exactly the same ... That's all I think about at the moment, please feel free to come back for more details. You can also share your questions in the "FoxInCloud" section of wConnect Message Board. Yes, I won't forget this one ... I you have 3 more minutes for FoxInCloud, please take our "2012 roadmap survey" - this will help us a lot decide priorities and allocate additional resources we'll raise in coming months. http://foxincloud.com/surveys.php Thank you, Thierry Nivelet FoxInCloud Give your VFP app. a new life in the cloud http://foxincloud.com/ Le 09/01/12 20:26, MB Software Solutions, LLC a écrit : > My ISP seems to be too quiet. I've emailed him (he's small, but > effective for my needs in the past) regarding hosting a PC for my > FoxIncCloud hosting needs, but he hasn't gotten back to me, so I want to > start searching elsewhere. Any contacts for such a colo box are > appreciated. > > I think I'm ready to give this a shot. > > Thanks, > --Mike > --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
